Shodan, I’m more or less conservative. We see eye to eye on many issues or at least agree vaguely. But in this thread on Ted Kennedy, you’ve made a gigantic ass out of yourself. You don’t have to like the man or his family to not be disgustingly pleased that he’s sick.
I don’t really like Ted Kennedy. Frankly, the family as a whole (if not all individuals) strikes me as self-absorbed, even narcistic, alchoholic elitists who blindly follow an ideology which gets them votes and power while trading on the name of a better man.
But I’m not happy he’s sick, particularly with such an illness. I hope he recovers, or at least passes gracefully and grently (unfortunately, these diagnosis is not very optimistic). I’m not going to fling around vague accusations about the driving thing since it’s over decades ago. it’s a little late and unimportant now.
I must say that I’m surprised and disgusted by your actions.
I’ve been trying to figure out for, well, years now, why exactly no mod has called **Shodan **on his trollish behavior. A simple search for his name will reveal that most of his contributions to a thread are nothing more than one liners designed to elicit an aggressive response. He rarely mentions his views on a given subject (because then he’d have to defend his views), but instead just makes fun of opinions held by others (usually the dreaded “Usual Suspects” and/or liberals). In what way is that not the behavior of a troll?
Seriously, does he ever add anything of substance with his drive-by threadshits?
In all fairness, if Dick Cheney were in that hospital bed I would, like every good and decent American, be praying to Og to increase his suffering and yet hasten his end.
For the record, not a Kennedy fan, but yeah, wouldn’t see a need to be mean about it. Man served (serves) his country the way he thought (thinks) best, and I can respect that.
In all seriousness, if Shodan believes Ted Kennedy to be a murderer, is he still obligated to respect the man’s life, feel sorry about his illness, and eventually mourn his death? ETA: In particular, a murderer who he may believe has cravenly gotten away with the crime? Who has lived a better life than the vast majority of us, rich and highly respected? Who seems completely unrepentant and unwilling to accept responsibility for his actions? This he has to respect?
I can clearly see your point there, both Falwell and Kennedy spent a lifetime drooling poisonous slime about vulnerable and harmless minorities! Why, they’re practically identical in their behavior! Like when Kennedy tried to blame the gay people and feminists for 9/11…oh, wait, that was Falwell? See, even I get them mixed up!
You are a better man than I. I would start a thread in MPSIMS to celebrate it. I just would not jump into a condolences thread to celebrate. Hell I don’t really have any liking for Ted, but I still think **Shodan ** pick the wrong place to drop his load.
